Zdash 1.0.2

What is Zdash?

[Zdash] is a private implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol forked from [Zcash]. Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy through a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme that preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata.

This software is the Zdash client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Zdash transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take a day or more once the block chain has reached a significant size.

Zdash is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.

Building

Build Zdash along with most dependencies from source by running Get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install \
      build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
      autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
      zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake

Install

# Build
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
# fetch key
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
# Run
./src/zcashd

Currently only Linux is officially supported.

Where do I begin?

We have a guide for joining the main Zcash network: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide

Need Help?

• See the documentation at the Zcash Wiki for help and more information.

License

For license information see the file COPYING.